PaddockLad
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Not going to say anything new and nothing of substance, so what's the point?
He's pointed out that the tories got the call about how to handle the economic disaster wrong; the only political party in the world to call it wrong i.e. to do nothing.
(New)Labour are really down in the dumps, but I suggested to mrs hips last night that it might be worth a £20 punt on them winning the next election.
Is he suggesting every country that gave trillions to the banks got it spot on?
He's told us that not ONE saver in UK lost a single penny of their savings.
And at the small price of £25k of debt for every man, woman and child in the country. GREAT.
And how would you have felt this time last year when you rolled up to a random cashpoint and found you couldnt get near your wages as the global finanacial system had run out of money? Brown and Darling grasped the nettle and saved the world from the fuck wittery of the way the major banks had been doing things since de regulation started under the tories the best part of 30 years ago. Good on them I say.
A lot of us sleepwalked into this, and a lot of us are partly to blame as we saw our houses nicely quadruple in price etc. Some warned we were in for a reckoning, but we largely ignored them and chose to look on in glee in the estate agents windows and get ourselves into huge debt by borrowing against the artificially huge amount our houses were worth. Selling mortgages to those that banks thirty years ago wouldnt have touched with a bargepole, self certification of mortgage applications etc, a lot of us swallowed the whole lot as being normal and having no side effects, and a lot of us naiively thought it could go on forever,or just chose not to think about it too much. And if anyone can show me how any government on earth could have introduced stricter regulation for the markets once Maggie and Reagan had set the ball rolling then I'd be interested in hearing what they have to say. No government could have reigned in those who played fast and loose with our/their cash, it would've been so completely against the free market principles that the system was built upon that the banks would've staged a military fuckin coup if any major government had seriously tried to get them to act with a bit of restraint.
It's true, taxes will go up to pay for this dogs dinner. It's also true at the end of world war 2 that as a nation we owed more.....how many booms and busts have we seen since then?...t'is the way of capitalism, and thats the only game in town I'm afraid.
And sadly it will mean the end of Brown, who for all his huge faults is just about as good a PM that we can hope for/are going to be able to get as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.
fuckin depressing isn't it?
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Theres a bust of Sir Bob in the foyer of the player's entrance (the old milburn entrance).......hes still keeping a wary eye on all who come and go at the club.....
Joe Harvey should be recognised in some way pubicly at the ground.....it shows the Westwood, Seymour and Mckeag regimes in an even worse light than what they are seen at the moment....they mustve made millions on the back of what Joe did for the club...it was never spent on players or the ground....until we sold Pedro that is
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I never thought Stevie would be one to have it in for the working class man.
He'll be sitting in the Platinum Club next.....if he doesn't already with the rest of his corporate chums.
And a message for young Steven....I've been part of the supervisory team on various multi million pound projects for the likes of Spie Matthew Hall and Lorne Stewart, I've seen the corporate management end of this game close up and It's really not for me....too much politics, too many people stabbing each other in the back, too many bullshitting brown noses all sucking the bossses knob....does it sound familiar to you?
You're actually spot on in a way....I have the right experiance and know how to be a site engineer at least at my age but I for one can earn a very good wage and come home and switch off in a way that management types never can. Many I know suffer badly from stress, a common complaint as you well know as you were whingeing on about it in a thread a few weeks back. Lack of ambition?...absoloutely, but at least I avoid having to deal with such charming corporate types such as yourself.
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Dickwad I can see why you were treated like a twat......cos you seem to be one.
No agency takes a cut of your salary.
Recruitment is a multi billion pound industry which is heavily regulated. It gets people into work who may not on thier own steam, a good IT consultant may not be a good sales person.
All business's are there to make a profit. I suppose you feel the same about solicitors, mechanics, plumbers, etc all the little things you cannot do but begrudge paying for. Employment Agencies offer a free service.
Nerve touched?
Recruitment agencies are scum holes.
Is that the sound of a nail being hit firmly on the head?
to answer Mr Shinton's points...
I'm not paid a salary as such, if I work through an agency I get an hourly rate, of which the agency takes a cut. No agency=more money money for myself.
I'm 40 in a months time, am a fully qualified electrician and have been in this trade every day of my life since the day I left school. I am more than capable of cutting a deal with any given contractor who may be interested in offering me work. It is the contractors who have gone down this road of putting someone between themselves and tradesmen for a service they could easily do in house. I fully accept that it is easier for them to to contract out recruitment of staff but with the increased "casualisation" of such labour the contractors reap what they sow, with many left in the lurch at the end of jobs with people moving on to the next contract well before they may be laid off from where they are currently working.
Solicitors, mechanics and plumbers offer services which the average man in the street generally isn't qualified to do or can only do to a certain extent before professional help is required. Anyone with a titter of wit can cut a deal with a prospective employer, we don't need someone posistioning themselves between us and them and taking a cut for no more than answering the phone all day, talking total bollocks and seemingly posting on here.
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This is what I sent to an agency who fucked me around last year...the first one was to the directors, the second one to the fucktard who was pissing me off when I'd been out of work for 2 months...just to say employment agencies, whilst being completely legal and indeed a multi billion pound "industry" are all without exception morally bankrupt paricsiticle cunts...why should any tosser in an office take a cut of my money for doing fuck all?
I sent the email below to Anthony on Friday afternoon after being fobbed off by others in the office about whether there was work for me next week.As I mention in the email this is the second friday in a month I've been left dangling on a phoneline by him. I just think tradesmen in general are worth a phonecall, good news or bad. The thing is he phoned me, offering work that he has now appeared to have given to someone else. Thats fine, I just don't like feeling that I'm at the beck and call of someone who couldnt do my job in a month of Sundays, but appears to at times control whether I get work or not, and then can't be arsed to tell me whether its on or not. And overall its a pretty poor reflection on yourselves.Anthony.......common business courtesy is to return calls?......you did this to me 3 Fridays ago as well.....am I starting on Tuesday? a simple yes or no will suffice.Rather than you getting others to fob me off.Not very professional is it? seeing as if it wasn't for tradesman like me your job wouldnt exist. Don't know if your directors would care if I was to let them know (going on the evidence you are presenting re Onsite I very much doubt it) but I've just rang the office and its closed...surprise suprise! I'm not asking much, just for you to do your job to a resonable degree of efficency for the likes of us who you earn your salary through, rather than treating us as a bit of an irrelevance and indeed something you'd scrape off your shoe. -
. com are saying Pep Guardiola was there as well.....but no Mourihno apparently?....If anyone has a lot to thank Sir Bob for its surely him...he'd probably still be a PE teacher without coming into contact with Sir Bob?....am sure he had a good reason for not being there...maybe he wasn't asked?
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Sounds like we're getting twatted.....would it be fair to say we may be missing Smith a bit tonight?
We're doing the old rope-a-dope.
Let them throw everything at us for the first 20 mins, soak it up, then when they blow themselves out pick them off with our superior skill.
Which is and has been a good tactic this season, but thats with Smudger clattering anything that moves.....sounds like theyre straight on to Colo and Taylor
one each Ormerod
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Sounds like we're getting twatted.....would it be fair to say we may be missing Smith a bit tonight?
Colo shouldve scored just then, cleared by a player on the line, apparently with his hand
Butt misses a free header from the corner
fuck.
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Anyone planning to go to the game by train should note that National Express East Anglia drivers are on strike on the Saturday. Don't know if it affects anyone going via Peterborough but the Liverpool Street route wil be a hourly and crammed if you're extremely lucky.
It's the last day of a 6 day strike (I just remembered as I've just checked with my boss that I can work from home all week) so it may be resolved in time but its still a potentially huge pisser.
The strike has been called off today
midday start in that boozer opposite the main entrance to the station with the hanging baskets outside
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when you think that these were only the first lot of casualties - everyone that has died since because of this benighted action................ probably half a million and we STILL haven't caught the bastard behind it
Wasn't Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the man mainly behind it ?
he was the on-site organiser but I was thinking of the demented Arsenal supporter locked in his cave somewhere.................
I think conspiracy theories are generally a crock of shit...but I think he's been dead for years like.....there's been another audio broadcast by "him" this week but new no film footage of the fucker since before 9/11...
They got him when they bombed the Tora Bora caves I reckon...or he succumbed to renal failure as he was seemingly on dialysis before he took the the mountains....but he's being kept "alive" for propaganda purposes so we can continue the "war on terror"
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That's crap lol almost laughable. Because people don't sing doesn't mean they are any less of a fan, to say they are is absurd.
Why?
The whole idea of debate is that you state your position and then state your reason for having that position to give other people a chance to counter it.
Yes and i think near enough every other person on here has agreed your point is a joke.
I don't think you're quite understanding this.
Answer this simple question: Why do you think it's a joke?
because its a free country?....what are you going to do?....stand at the turnstiles at Blackpool and Ipswich shouting "you'd better fuckin sing mind ya bastaaads!"?
I was there yeateday as well and we were about as vocal as usual at an away game....there are lull's in atmoasphere/singing at most games...especially last season...but overall we gave a good account of ourselves, as usual....mind I thought theyd be a bit more vocal...disappointed in that, and sometimes you need the opposing fans to be up for it as well.
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So, we're essentially using the original language? Its every other fucker thats got it wrong
Tbf, we know the english language (and people) are a vast mix of all sorts of influence.
I started this due to a discussion I had with a Scottish bloke on holiday where he was saying Scots was a language and Geordie was a dialect. I was saying they were both from the same source and therefore the same either both a language or both a dialect, not one the other.
It is a topic Im interested in like. Not just the language, but the history of the north east (including our relationship with them down the road).
The porrigde mooth was wrong, and was probably trying to make some sort of fucked up nationalistic point.
Try these for interesting stuff about the origins of how we speak today and local (mainly Nothumbrian) history, all by Alistair Moffat...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_0_12?u...ix=alistair+mof
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Well not quite.
Gan, for example, is taken from the Anglo-Saxon word "Gangan" meaning "go". So when we say we gan somewhere, its not slang for go, it actually meant go just we still use the older word?
Wife from the word "Wif" or "Wiif" (Dutch).
Marra, incidently came from the pitts as another example of sources.
So, its not really how we pronounce everyday words now, they are largely from our past and stil used today.
Yeah, and many of them are the root of words used in modern English, so we're using the same words, but just pronouncing them differently, whcih means it's essentially the same language but a different dialect.
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See now I disagree. I know that Geordie is classed as a local dialect, however, the words that set us apart from others are actually words largely taken from Anglo-Saxon origin with some norman / scandanavian influence. What I mean is, we have continued to use older words (or based on older words that have evolved somewhat over time) rather than replace them.
Now Scots, as I reckon you know, is actually taken from the same base as ours (go back to knowing that Edinburgh was once in Northumberland or that the North East was once part of Scotland, the origins of our language is the same - low land Scots as you say, not the highlands / west). So, whatever one is, the other should really be?
I agree with you that both are really the same, but while you say diallect, I think language.
Many people see the north east language as "slang". Saying that we are not speaking properly if we say "Toon, Larn, Wife, Lass" or such, while in fact, we are speaking exactly right, just an older form of language?
Not saying Im right like, but I reckon I have a fair arguement
Oh, and one for Stevie, did you know we used to speak Welsh?
The thing is, a lot of those words are just the way we pronounce words that are in use in everyday English spoken all over the world....."wor" is just another way of saying "our" and comes from the same root word, which technically makes the way we speak a dialect rather than an individual, stand alone language, regardless of how far back some of the pronounciations go.
We did indeed all speak Brythonic (early Welsh) all over the British Isles until waves of Saxon and Anglian immigration, raids form Pictish and Scottish (ie Irish) pirates and of course the Roman invasion pushed most of the speakers of the language westwards into the mountains of what is now Wales, where the language continues to thrive, which in itself is a minor miracle, having been under huge threat for two thousand years, and from the two greatest empires the world has ever seen. Cornish, Breton,Scots,Irish,Manx,Galloway and Deeside Gaelic are all either extinct or dying, but Welsh survives, which I quite like
Near where my old man was brought up in the Cheviots there's a place called Pennymuir:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=37550...searchp=ids.srf
its a very historic place:
http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/136.html
not least for the actual name itself, which has survived in its original brythonic form, unchanged since someone first named it two millenia ago:
penn= "at the head"
y= "of"
muir= "the walls".....(of the roman camp)
for further confirmation look at the map of Wales where you find it unchanged as wel in Penn y ghent etc....
Makes you think doesn't it Stevie?....we're all fuckin taffs!
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"Geordie" is a dialect, which makes use of lots of slang words, many of them Anglian in origin.
"Scots", better known as either "lallans" or "lowlands scots" is allegedly a language (according to the porrigde mooths), but it is a in reality just a dialect, with, in the south east of Scotland, many similarities to "Geordie". The western version, as spoken by Robbie Burns, is quite different in some ways, being influenced more by the Gaelic spoken in Galloway until (comparatively) fairly recently.
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absolute proof that this league is not so good as it used to be is borne out by the fact that Ameobi and Chopra are leading goascorers.
And absolute proof of our own decline is that Ameobi has became so important.
too right...I blame Shepherd
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He's been right so far tbf.
Lucky more like
Therefore by implication, the team has been lucky to get the results.
Which is patently bollocks.
Hardly, the guy's said we're going to walk the league with the squad we have, the squad is obviously too thin without luck having a hand in not getting injuries - it's got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed. Therefore the guy's been lucky that the first team haven't really had injuries, if they had it's doubtful we'd have got the same results during this start to the season and it's even more doubtful that they'd continue any further in to the season.
It's easy to say that with our 'first team' we'd win the league, but with our 'squad' it's a different matter altogether.
... which isn't bollocks.
Thats easy for you to say.....wtf are you going on about? whats " got bugger all to do with how the first team has performed"? Do you mean what the lad has actually said would happen?....he said we'd piss it, we have so far and thats wihout Shola in the last game, Guthrie for a couple of games etc....I do happen to agree the squad is probably too thin to sustain it, but no one else has said from the outset it would be this comparatively easy in this divison with the players we have at the club, so some credit is due surely?
But if you mean the results we've had are nothing to do with how we've played (which is how I'm reading what you've posted) then maybe you need a lie down mate
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Been out a few years now and the tv streaming service has been switched off but its still the only phone on the UK market with a DAB radio on it....£16.50 0n ebay
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I think a lot of it depends on the condition of the players come June. Too often England have been let down by players exhausted after domestic and European campaigns.
True enough, I think it's vital if we have any chance of winning it that Rooney, Rio and Gerrard are fit, if any one of them is missing I think we'd give a good account but definitely fall short.
Reading Ant's comments, and yours it's always struck me, despite Britain's murderous past in Ireland, a large portion of the Irish people don't actually hate England when it comes to football, certainly no where near as much as the Scottish, maybe it's better education I don't know.
Parky, Agbonlahor is one of the worst capped players in England's history, we have no alternative to Heskey if we want a strong cunt to win balls in the air, I think Carlton Cole's recent performances justify a squad position.
Aggy can play on the right or in the center mind. I like the idea of bringing him on when Lennon is knackered. Just don't see CC as international class.
I was thinking on the bog this morning that if we had a Drogba upront we'd be unstoppable.
Thats the thing about big Emile...Drogba is the player Heskey could and should have been......but in the system Capello is playing Heskey does his job and creates space for Rooney to play in. It works, and he's found the key to playing Gerrard and Lampard plaing together i.e. Gareth Barry. And the players are shit scared of being dropped, no more "caps for the boys", unless you're Beckham. This is a very good England team with the right man leading them. If they win the World Cup it will be a great team. But they're going to need a bit of luck for that
I like how he uses beckham though, put in some quality after one of the quicker lads lennon/walcott etc has worn down the fullback
Yeah one ball Becks played when he came on was brilliant...sort of scooped it up and bent it round for Rooney...and I think he's definetly on the plane for SA...I don't think he'd be anywhere near the squad if he wasn't. I think Wes Brown should go as well, and could well start at right back....their goal last night came because Johnson allowed the cross to come in too easily. And he's a better player in the middle than Upson for me.
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I think a lot of it depends on the condition of the players come June. Too often England have been let down by players exhausted after domestic and European campaigns.
True enough, I think it's vital if we have any chance of winning it that Rooney, Rio and Gerrard are fit, if any one of them is missing I think we'd give a good account but definitely fall short.
Reading Ant's comments, and yours it's always struck me, despite Britain's murderous past in Ireland, a large portion of the Irish people don't actually hate England when it comes to football, certainly no where near as much as the Scottish, maybe it's better education I don't know.
Parky, Agbonlahor is one of the worst capped players in England's history, we have no alternative to Heskey if we want a strong cunt to win balls in the air, I think Carlton Cole's recent performances justify a squad position.
Aggy can play on the right or in the center mind. I like the idea of bringing him on when Lennon is knackered. Just don't see CC as international class.
I was thinking on the bog this morning that if we had a Drogba upront we'd be unstoppable.
Thats the thing about big Emile...Drogba is the player Heskey could and should have been......but in the system Capello is playing Heskey does his job and creates space for Rooney to play in. It works, and he's found the key to playing Gerrard and Lampard plaing together i.e. Gareth Barry. And the players are shit scared of being dropped, no more "caps for the boys", unless you're Beckham. This is a very good England team with the right man leading them. If they win the World Cup it will be a great team. But they're going to need a bit of luck for that
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trying to pull myself up on to a wall at a farm once and one that looked as if it could have been saddled and made to carry young children around ran across my fingers...I fuckin crapped myself and fell the 6 feet or so to the deck, badly spraining my ankle....fuckin hideous creatures
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Only a couple of people on this forum can judge the impact the Beatles had. The ones who were alive at the time.
Anyone else is just guessing on the basis of what they've read or been told.
Its strange you say that, at 43 I am the youngest of 7 so there was all sorts of music being played and lying around the house from my older brothers and sisters but I cant really remember any Beatles stuff.
You're not one of them then.
Imo, to appreciate a musical revolution you have to have not heard any music that came after it or is a derivative style before listening to it. The only way to fulfil that criteria is either to have spent your life listening to music pre-1962 and then at the age of 17/18 listen to the Beatles for the first time. Impossible if you have a radio or TV.
When my dad (a professional musician) talks about listening to The Beatles for the first time, he talks about the first moment he heard it and the difference to anything he had heard before. His love for them comes from this moment, one which you can not re-create for later generations.
I was old enough to see punk supposedly revolutionalise music but it was all exaggerated despite the enthusiasm of the fans - punk was supposed to kill disco/dance music but the 70s ended ruled by garbage like the Bee Gees and Michael Jackson - just like now the charts are still dominated by populist shite.
Music to me is always divided between stuff that "proper" music fans - people who take it seriously - like and stuff bought by and listened to by more casual listeners who are often influenced just by the notion of popularity. I've always considered The Beatles to be on the latter side of the divide.
Not really....John Savage's critique of punk rock "Englands Dreaming" basically says punk rock came out in a significant way as a reaction to the overblown prog rock/heavy metal excesses of the 1970s....why have three artics full of gear for ELP's mid 70s stage show or Led Zep travelling in seperate private jets when all you need is 3 chords an amp and some enthusiasm i.e. the much quoted "do it yourself" ethos of early punk....which is ironically where the Beatles pretty much started in the clubs of Hamburg, but after Shea Stadium they decided they didnt really want to go to where the likes of Led Zep ended up and they became a studio band as mentioned above. This suited all except George Harrison, who was later quoted bemoaning the chance to compare his skills against the likes of Jeff Beck or Tom Petty, and quite possibly paved the way for the frankly awful Travelling Wilburys
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Belittling by comparing them to Take That just shows your prejudice though, and digging up all these articles doesn't really prove much. Of course the Beatles were influenced by previous bands but I would still state they took their genre further than anyone else.
Happy Face, I take your point, not that I read magazine such as Q or care about their scores. But, out of interest, which bands (if any) do you think have been more influential in the development of British rock music than the Beatles?
Weeelll....it could be argued that The Kinks "invented" heavy metal with their track "Girl I want to be with you (all of the time)"......the use of choppy guitar chords which are left hanging in the air...this hadn't really been done before, and that particular sound went on to influence the up and coming heavy blues gutarists of the West Midlands around that time (Tommy Iommi of Black Sabbath,Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple etc) and also ex public schoolboy Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) who collectively it could be said laid down the basic style for every heavy metal cock/poodle rocker thats ever donned a pair of spandex leggings
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Don't know about being "the best" but I've hugely enjoyed this lot's music.......
Angus Young
Bob Mould
Johnny Marr
John Squire
Mick Jones
Richard Thompson
Jimi Hendrix
Adrian Smith
Gary Moore
Rory Gallagher
Bernard Sumner
Kurt Cobain
J Mascis
Paul Weller (The Jam only!
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Noel Gallagher
Ray Davies
George Harrison
Prince
to be honest theres dozens....